March 17, 2006

DEAD MEN DON'T WRITE LETTERS:

Two held in Afghanistan with letter of Zawahiri (Dawn, 3/16/06)

Afghan police said they arrested on Thursday two suspected Taliban insurgents carrying letters from the movement’s fugitive leader and Al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri.

The Afghan nationals were arrested separately close to the border with Pakistan in eastern Nangarhar province, border security forces provincial deputy chief Mohammad Ibrar said.

“One of them was carrying letters from (the Taliban’s) Mullah Omar and Ayman al-Zawahiri,” Mr Ibrar said.


Note there isn't one from OBL.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 17, 2006 5:59 PM
Comments

Curt Weldon is now claiming that his Iranian source told him Osama died recently in Iran.

Posted by: jd watson [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 17, 2006 7:25 PM

That's silly--the Iranians would murder OBL themselves.

Posted by: oj at March 17, 2006 8:23 PM

And Saddam wouldn't ever have worked with al Qaeda because he was secular and they were religious, right ?

Posted by: Noam Chomsky at March 17, 2006 8:49 PM

Noam:

No, they had a common enemy--the Shi'ites.

Posted by: oj at March 17, 2006 9:32 PM

If you can't think of any enemies/rivals that UbL and Iran might have in common, you're not trying.

House of Saud, to begin with.

Posted by: Noam Chomsky at March 18, 2006 4:31 AM

Iran's ally in that fight is the Shi'ites of Arabia with OBL and the Sa'uds the enemy of both.

Posted by: oj at March 18, 2006 7:40 AM

that's why saddam sent his air force to iran, in GW-1.

Posted by: toe at March 18, 2006 1:00 PM
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